This Halloween, NeuNoir theatre presents a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's iconic tale of terror The Fall Of The House Of Usher at The Treehouse Bookshop, Kenilworth, Warwickshire (25 Oct 2025).

After being mysteriously summoned by a childhood friend, a visitor arrives at the remote House of Usher, a crumbling manor in a bleak, desolate landscape.

Inside he discovers the sickly and cadaverous Roderick Usher, the last surviving male heir, consumed by fear and afflicted by an inexplicable illness that seems to eerily mirror his dark, dank and decaying surroundings.

Published in 1839, Poe's claustrophobic tale was an instant sensation. A richly layered and atmospheric Gothic masterpiece featuring a supremely creepy house, the increasingly tense story explores themes of friendship and family, as well as madness, isolation, despair and ultimately death.

Read by NeuNoir regular Richard Usher (Sweet Cherry Publishing's Sherlock Holmes audiobook series – and no relation to Roderick), The Fall Of The House Of Usher is the Midlands-based company's fifth Halloween production, following WH Hodgson's Carnacki: The Ghost Hunter (2021), EF Benson's The Outcast (2022), MR James' Casting The Runes (2023), and Bram Stoker's The Judge's House (2024).

NeuNoir presents Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher visits The Tree House Bookshop, Kenilworth, Warwickshire on Saturday 25 October 2025 at 7.30pm.

For more information, see: neunoir.wordpress.com

For tickets see: treehousebookshop.co.uk